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Hi everyone, this is Claudia Militarou back on John Militarou Ministries show.
I'm here with my father John Militarou.
We just got back from our December trip, our annual Christmas trip that we take every year.
We just got back.
It was a very successful trip.
It was a very interesting trip.
We've never experienced some of the stuff that we experienced ever before, which we'll
get more in detail later on in this show.
But first of all, I want to say thank you to everyone that's helped us with everything
and prayed for us, prayed for our safety, which is very important, what was very important
on this trip, and for all God's blessing that He helped us with everything that we did.
Before we start, before I want to get into any details of the trip, I wanted to read
the scripture that my dad and I picked out before we started this program.
I want to go first in the chapter, which is the book of Matthew, chapter 19, but I want
to go to verse 13 first.
It says here,
Then the little children were brought to him, that he might put his hands on them and prayed.
But the disciples rebuked them.
So the disciples basically rebuked the kids from coming to Jesus.
See, a lot of people forget that kids are innocent.
They are the future of anything, of this world, and they just put them aside.
See, John Militarou Ministries, we see the kids as innocent people that need to show
love to and to understand there is someone out there that loves them.
And I thought of that, you know, that was very important because Jesus says here, but
Jesus said, Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them, for all such is
the kingdom of heaven.
So we need not to forget the kids at all.
And that's our focus with these Christmas packages, to show the love to these little
children.
Because where we go to, we go to the little villages tucked away in areas that you can
never imagine where they're at.
A lot of people think of the cities, think of the local towns near the cities, but they
forget about the villages.
And that's the focus.
That's what we do.
We go to the deep, deep villages where it's impossible to go many times, even by vehicle
or even by, I mean, you need a horse with a sleigh to go through the snow to get to
some of these villages.
But that's why I wanted to mention first, I wanted to focus on that, that the kids,
what was our focus on this trip, to show them the love that when they grow up one day, they
won't forget that somebody actually cared about them at Christmas, that they came over
there personally to give them a gift and show their love to them and show the love of Jesus.
And you can read the next verse from verse 14 also.
Yeah, the first 14 says, and he laid hands on them and departed from there.
So Jesus prayed for them and laid hands and loved on them out of his whole heart, because
he knows that kids are the future of the world.
And before you start to describe the trip, this part of Romania, which we went, it's
the northern and the coldest point in Romania, which is Moldova, Ukraine and Romania.
And a little city called Dereban, which is only 12,000 people live in that little city.
Near to that city we went this time when it's a lot of poverty.
People they live in so much poverty, their homes are made by mud.
I mean, even the locals call it the third world of Romania.
People I've never actually heard people say that in Romania say this is a third part,
third world of Romania, where you have the cities, you have the towns and then there's
the third world part.
And we never been before.
And also your brother came with us.
Emmanuel, my brother came with me and my dad and was us three.
And then we had two other people from Germany that joined us.
And then we had two other people from the local areas.
It was a smaller team than usual, but you know, it was actually a blessed.
We were very prosperous in what we did.
We finished packages even faster than before.
It was a short trip and successful.
But what we did first, we started off with arriving there to the local room in the local
city where we usually go to, where we stationed in the little church where we bought, you
know, we brought all the food, all the chocolates, the sweets, the teddy bears, and we did a
whole assembly line.
We made a nice package.
If you pretty soon will go to a videotape where I explain each package, what we have
in them from the from all the sweets, all the way to the teddy bear.
If you guys want, you can roll that video.
And this video show the go down this line that we created an assembly line here.
And I'll explain to you guys exactly what we've ever put in each package.
Today we went and bought these little chocolates from the flea market.
We got a good price for these.
These are actually Ukrainian chocolates.
We got these.
We're going to put one of these in each package.
And then the church in Ingolstadt helped us purchase some Napoleon wafers.
And we're going to put one of these packages in the in the in the bag.
And then also we purchased a biscuit vanilla.
It's like a cookie, Romanian style cookie where it's either filled with chocolate filling
or vanilla filling.
We bought these to put one of these.
And then we also have a box of raisins that were donated from America from Fresno, California.
Actually, we appreciate them for helping us out.
And we're going to probably put two of these in each package.
And then lastly, we also have chocolate bars that once again, the church in Ingolstadt
helped us purchase these.
These are pretty big chocolate chocolates to put in the package.
And when the kids see this, they are shocked because a lot of people can't even afford
to buy this to give to their child for Christmas.
So we're we're happy to have these.
And then our brother Georgica is putting together our bags that every year we do.
We put a label on here with a scripture from Isaiah explaining the meaning of Christmas
to each child.
So they know the message of the meaning of Christmas.
So this is a good way of spreading the word at Christmas time to the non-Christians.
So we purchase these bags and he's putting these labels on each and one of them.
And lastly, the most famous thing that we do for John Lutheran Ministries, we collect
teddy bears throughout the whole year and we put teddy bears in each package.
And so we're going to be putting this in the package with all the goodies that we have.
This is something that these kids never receive anything and their families don't even have
anything to give them for Christmas.
And of course, we go to the villages, not the cities, mostly to the villages where nobody
actually goes to them.
We're predicting approximately a thousand.
We're trying to do these packages for them.
See this is what we did.
Those are all the items that we put on each package and we were able to give approximately
fifteen hundred out, including a local network where we always give some kids probably two
hundred and fifty kids.
Exactly.
And in a local church that helped us with that always helps us.
We're actually in connection with them all the time.
But we that's approximately fifteen hundred packages we made this year.
It's not necessarily the number that we focus on.
It's actually where we go and who we touch.
We want to go to areas where nobody goes that nobody even considers going where it's actually
impossible to go.
This year we were hit with a lot of snow, a lot of weather conditions, and somehow we
made it halfway through there and we were able to distribute all those packages.
But you know it was it was not planned the way certain things happened.
For instance, we got stuck in the snow for a little bit for five days and four nights
and we got delayed coming back home.
But we thank God for His protection and providing us a place to stay while we were stranded,
literally stranded in a little village when we didn't know a soul there at all.
But God helped us meet someone and they welcomed us in their home and opened their arms wide
open with food.
And I mean we were eleven people in two rooms only, which is pretty close quarters, especially
for us Americans growing up here in America where we're used to our big homes and you
know we all want our little spaces in our house.
But we thank God for not allowing us to stay in the local schools on benches sleeping on
them.
But He opened us a house for us where we could stay.
So the villages where we visited, where we visited Red U, we went to the local schools.
We spoke to them ahead of time.
We told them...
I want to mention about those villages.
When I went in September and searched the area myself, I checked to a local pastor over
there from Redim and he described to me those villages.
Nobody did anything for them.
Before.
And also they are not even maybe one or two Christian, evangelical Christian in that area.
All of them they call themselves Christian as the Orthodox.
As Greek Orthodox.
But they have nothing to do with the relationship with Christ.
And the important thing is when we came in those villages, and we're going to show later
on in the video, we share with them about Christ.
What is all about.
Not only giving gifts to the kids, but also give them hope for the eternity and tell them
about what we celebrate about.
What's the meaning of Christmas.
Yeah, because when we asked them many times, I asked them, I said, what is the celebration
this month?
Some of them they said Santa Claus.
Other they said, well, it's Christmas.
Other they said it's the birth of Jesus.
And then I start open the Bible and talk to them about Jesus because not only the kids
was there, but some of the parents and most of the teachers.
And even the priest because they have religious hours there where they teach religion class.
So this time we went to Rediu, Myrcan.
Myrcan, we went to.
We went to Rydhudzprut.
And then those are the three villages we were able to visit ourselves for the first day.
And we went into the schools and we talked to the principals, we talked to the directors
and we gathered, they knew we were all coming.
They were all prepared for us to come.
They get all the kids from the village.
From preschool all the way to seventh grade.
Or seventh grade.
Or eighth grade.
Or seventh grade.
But we mostly focused on the smaller classes like the preschool all the way to fourth,
fifth grade.
Because the older kids are a handful of them only.
Just a few.
Each school had approximately two, three hundred kids in them.
And we went over there and we spoke to them.
The directors and the principals were completely open for us to come.
They were actually happy and excited for us to go in their school.
They allowed us to read the scripture and the Bible.
They allowed us to explain, to pray for them, to bless them.
And they actually, some of them had a song prepared for us in Romanian.
Actually a Christian song to sing to us because they want to thank us for coming in the school.
So it was a very successful time over there.
We can show the video which we start first with the radium, right?
Redu.
We went in there and then we went into the other.
But this video actually talks about how we were taking each goodie and put them in the
bag.
This is how the bag was formed.
It's myself, my dad, my brother Emmanuel.
And then we have Pastor Georgica with Sister Veronika.
And then we also have a couple other people that are going to come in and help us.
But it's a lot of work.
It's going to take us several hours, probably a day or two to put everything together.
But this is the whole goal is to come here in the middle of winter.
It's actually pretty cold.
It's minus 10 Celsius, which is approximately what?
10, 15 degrees outside.
We're pretty bundled up.
Thankfully we have a good stove here that is providing us enough heat in this building.
And we'll be able to put this together.
So we start off with two of these special chocolates from Ukraine that we have.
We're going to put two of these in the package.
The Napoleon wafers.
We're going to put a Romanian biscuit with a filling of vanilla in them.
And then we're going to put two boxes of raisins in each package, a bar of chocolate, and then
dad, and a teddy bear.
That's how we create these packages.
We're going to create each and every one of them like this by hand.
And then we hand distribute them to the kids.
We did those all by hand.
We were a very small handful of people.
Fifteen hundred.
We did fifteen packages by hand.
It took a lot of time.
It was very cold.
Obviously you can see that we were all bundled up.
What is it about that stove over there?
I know.
It's not an interesting heating system.
That's the poor man's heating system in the church.
It's actually handmade by a local guy over there that made that.
And it actually keeps it pretty warm in there.
Well, that man, which is the pastor of that building over there, the church of that place,
he's building a new place.
And we pray the Lord to provide the funds to be able to get a bigger location.
We move our organization over there from Romania, from the south of Romania to the north of
Romania because from next few years we like to touch those areas again.
And that's why we pray the Lord to provide the funds to be able to go in the new building.
But we've been very thankful because we have that place.
Yes, we're very thankful.
Minus 27 Celsius outside.
Which is very cold.
That's extremely cold.
Yes.
And we, so after doing all those packages, we went the first day over there.
So we're in the village of Re Den.
Our first location where we're going, it looks like it's kindergarten through sixth grade,
I believe.
Is that sixth grade?
Five, six, seven, maybe sixth grade, fifth or sixth grade.
How many classes are here?
Classes 0, 1, 4, plus grade 6.
So kindergarten K through fourth grade.
So this is our first location where we're going.
Pretty cold and snowy.
So there's 57 kids in this school, which is kindergarten to fourth grade.
There's three teachers and then there was also 18 kids absent, which we gave to the
professors to give out their gifts to them tomorrow.
So very behaved kids, very well behaved kids.
Really good.
Good job.
We're in the village of Mor Khan.
The professors just told me there's 310 kids, I believe.
And there's kindergarten through eighth grade here.
We've all gathered together in this building over here, so we give them the packages.
They were so thankful.
They came one by one.
The mannerism, they were so well taught in school and by their parents.
They were thanking us.
One by one.
They didn't just, they waited.
One child came up to me and I was going to hand him a gift.
He goes, no, no, no, I already got one.
I just wanted to watch you guys.
Most kids in other areas would say they would have taken another bag and lied to you.
Well, like a year before was an area near north of Romania, also we did in 2011.
And there were so many kids over there and some of them, they hide their packets and
they want another one.
Exactly.
But these kids were different.
But those kids were so different.
I've been so amazed.
I mean, I've never seen in my life, they are so poor, but so well mannered.
Well mannered, well behaved.
I mean, we even talked to the teachers there and that's their focus.
The teachers actually.
Every single hour almost they said thank you in Romanian language.
Oh yeah.
Thank you.
From all the way from the preschool age all the way to the seventh, eighth grade age.
They were all thanking us for everything that we did for them to actually come out there.
Because nobody actually never went out there to give out packages.
And we went back again.
Unfortunately, we were blocked in.
We got blocked in and we were able to leave a handful of items with the locals over there
that we trusted and actually a local elder of the church.
And he actually donated all the rest of the stuff, right dad?
So we're in the village of Rea Du.
Surrounding villages are where we're supposed to donate this food, but unfortunately the
roads are blocked.
And it's impossible for us to go in the area to deliver this by hand.
So we're actually in the one of the elders home here that he's the main guy that travels
around these villages to take care of the Christians over here.
And so we're going to package them individually in each bag according to the family.
According to the family and what we're going to put in there, we're going to put rice.
We have rice.
This was donated by the church in Ingolstadt.
We've worked with them several times and we're thankful that they've donated once again to
help us out.
So we have rice.
We have pasta.
We have some oil to give to them.
Flour and sugar.
These are just necessary, how should I say, pantry needs that they need to have to survive
if they're trapped or if they don't have anything.
So this will make a difference for them in the winter months, especially now when they're
trapped in their homes.
So what our plan is to do is to put all the supplies in the package and then we go and
we'll put them by name, by how many kids there are in each family.
And after that, when the roads clear up a little bit, they'll come in and pick up their
package.
And you have 35?
There are approximately 35 families.
Some of them range from 13 kids, 15 kids, or one child.
So we have to do according to how many kids are in the family.
So this is the list that was given to us by the locals here, by one of the elders in the
church.
So unfortunately we were not able to go to the rest of the villages, the schools that
we were planned to go to, to donate the rest of the kids packages.
So we had to leave them here to one of the elders in the church that he can go donate
them personally to the schools.
They're expecting us to come by, but there are more storms coming in.
There's approximately nine feet of snow blocked up on the roads.
That's why we can't even go through.
Nine feet of snow, that's a lot of snow.
And the cloud machines haven't had a chance to come by and to clean up the roads yet.
So there's no way for us to go through it.
There's no way for us to go in next week because they say there's another big storm coming
in next week.
So that's where we're storing them.
And then as soon as the roads open up, that's where they'll be donating the rest of the
packages.
All these dry goods, we thought of it ahead of time saying this is a good pantry need
in everyone's home to have.
Was a ton of food we brought from Germany.
For Germany, we had two people that came with us from Germany, actually drove all the way
from Germany, all the way to Romania, which took them almost two days.
With a little trailer in the back of the van.
And they came over there and we unfortunately we were not able to go to the families to
donate the food.
But we got all the names of the families, wrote each name on the bag.
We assembled, we put each bag according to how many kids or how many people were in the
family.
We put all the food in there and we gave the permission to the local elder of the church
over there to go deliver them once the roads opened up because the weather was so bad that
the villages were actually snowed in.
Like six feet high.
At least six to nine feet high.
People were snowed in.
Literally.
They couldn't believe until we saw with our own eyes when we got stuck in the snow how
easy you are stranded in there.
So it was Saturday morning because we left early in the morning.
And our desire is to leave back Monday towards the middle of the country to catch the plane
on Wednesday.
To go home, yes.
But that was not possible.
We stood there Saturday.
Saturday we got stuck around two o'clock in the afternoon.
After we finished the mission over there we got Saturday night all night long.
Sunday morning we went to this family.
We walked, actually we had the military.
Like one mile.
The military from the border because we were right at the border of Moldova and Romania.
They had to come.
They actually, the authorities sent them to us to come and take us, make us get out of
the cars because it was impossible for the plow machines.
The reason, part of the reason we got stuck was the workers, first of all it was a Saturday,
a lot of them went drinking at the bar.
And by the time they realized the snow was coming down so heavily it was too late for
them to come out.
They came out with their plow machines but we forget the plow machines are not plow machines
you see in Western Europe or Romania.
I mean in America.
They are from 1960.
They are from the 60s, like from World War II.
I mean they are so old you should see these plow machines.
You think you are in a movie.
And finally at midnight a plow machine said he is going to come and get us out, one of
the workers.
He came after us and we followed him halfway through between a village and another village
and it broke down.
That's what happened, we broke down in the middle of a field where it was one of the
worst conditions possible.
I mean the wind chilled was incredible.
Every three hours we had to come out to dig the snow around the car because the car was
snowing in.
Exactly, and then finally Sunday after one, two o'clock in the afternoon we had the military
come, two people from the military to come and tell us that we have to walk knee deep
in the snow.
Like a three foot snow.
For an hour, I mean for a mile and a half in the snow to walk.
That's why we say we have never experienced such an adventure before for us in John Milton
Industries.
And he stood there like Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Finally Wednesday morning they start cleaning the road for the first time.
Every three hours they were saying they were sending somebody, they were sending somebody
but nobody came over there.
But we were thankful because later on we put those food in those bags for those 35 families
and we took food.
It's called me took food.
I went in September in that area and I searched the area.
Every single house over there almost every from 10, you count like 10 houses, maybe one
is made by brick.
The rest are made by mud.
Mud bricks.
Mud brick and they have no foundation.
They I mean if it's a lot of snow, if it's a lot of rain, they can easy can tilt it.
Like you see we went through one of the homes which was tilted halfway almost and I don't
know how this lady slanted.
It gets slanted.
So we're walking down the street to a widow that is approximately 70 years old and nobody
is here to take care of her, no kids or anything like that.
She lives by herself.
So we're walking down the street to go give her some food that we have that was donated
by some local churches in Germany.
So we're walking in the snow.
This is the widow's house.
This is the house approximately.
It's almost falling down on her.
Go ahead.
testament. She did no testament. Right next to you, she hides her little goats.
No, a new one.
I'm going to go and see what's up.
This is the barn of Redwoods Brun.
Granddaughter, I think. And has a dog inside and also has a little goat.
A little goat, yeah. And the house was all stilted. I don't know how she can stay over there
thinking the house is going to fall down one day and she's never going to come alive from there.
But that's most of the houses made over there by mud. And that's why so much poverty over there in
that area. But we are so glad we were able to do this work of the Lord, actually. And I want to
thank you from the bottom of my heart because without many of you, which they pray for us and
also helping us to do this project, we were not able to do it. Not only because we got stuck in
the snow. That was an experience which probably for Claudia and Emanuel.
But even for yourself. You never got stuck in a snow like this before.
Yeah. It was an experience to be in a country like that which we went to this house, which was a
mud house by the way, this house which you sleep to. And they have no water in the well.
That was quite an experience too because there was actually a huge drought in the fall and the
wells are dried up. And they have just a couple buckets every day, two or three buckets. And they
have to melt the snow and you have to count the water in the bathroom when you go to the bathroom.
We were thankful we actually had a bathroom in the house because most of the time in those kind of
villages you have to use the outhouses. But we were thankful that God, even though you would go,
well, why would God allow you to get stuck in the snow? We don't know why. But look what happened.
He provided a house for us to stay in. A roof, a warm house with food. And people were, they were
actually Christians. And you would have known. Yeah, they were Seventh-day Adventist Christians.
Who would have known that this would have happened? Nobody knew. But we could see little by little how
God led our steps. And I was so thankful because we have some food left in the van. We were able to
help them too. We helped them to give them some good size to have for us probably the whole month
of December and January with the food we were able to help them. This program is the first program
we did in 2013 after we came from this mission. But I believe the Lord will keep that door open
for many of you to be touched by the Gospel and to be changed because the time is now. Exactly how
we like to do it over and over again to go in those conditions in Christmas time and the winter time.
You helping us, you've been a part of this mission. Some of you maybe will say, well, I don't know if
I can do that. But you can do it through the things what the Lord put in your heart. Some people,
they help us in this mission with teddy bears. We thank you for these couples which they
provided teddy bears for us. Lee Hanson and Levan, they provide all these teddy bears. We thank you
for the two churches in Germany which they provide for us that be bars of chocolates and also those,
how you call that? Napoleon's wifers and the food and the families. Yeah and also we thank you for
the people from the United States which give us the finances to be able to purchase some more stuff
for Romania and also to pay for the gasoline and for our tickets and to see the blessing of God.
We need a team and only the Lord can put a team together like that. People from Germany,
from the United States and also from Romania. Is the team or is there? But also is the desire too.
Right? We have to have a desire to do these things. The heart for it. Yes.
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My brother Mitica calls him that, he was our guide and he took us to all these
communes and he says don't come on Friday because the roads are blocked. The roads were blocked.
I say yes, Saturday, at least Saturday and then I said let's go on Saturday,
even though he said Saturday and Saturday the roads are blocked.
Then I said let's pray to the Lord and let's go because we had to be in the
club on Monday night to go to the club because Wednesday morning at 6 we have to take the plane.
On the 19th. Yes. And we left. The road was free until we reached the Redium.
When we arrived in the Redium, there in the Redium we left, our van loaded with bags and
packages for the children, the van of my brother Seb who died in the back of the car with a ton of food
and the food he bought from Germany, my brothers and who prepared it to bring it there,
was food from this that was at least for a month for the family.
Indeed, and when he wrote in the newsletter, when he wrote the story in December, he impressed me
very much and in November, we actually mentioned in November that this was our wish,
to have food strictly necessary at least for a month, a month and a half for the difficult
winter period, not knowing what will happen, not knowing how important it is to be led by the
Spirit of God, how to lead you and what I wanted, that was our wish, to have flour,
to have sugar, to have rice, to have flour paste, right? And cooking oil. And cooking oil.
And God has done everything, just as you said in the first program and I want to mention again,
Gian, with all the adventures you have gone through, what touched me extraordinarily much,
both with my brothers here in America and with those from Germany, very much the heart,
because you can see when it is made of the heart. Already some of our viewers who are
watching the program now are familiar with some of your adventures because we looked
at what we received from you on Facebook and I was very impressed by the phones and how
they were looking for us here. Some were so nice because they knew your cell phone number
in Romania and they were looking and they were so excited, I'm talking from here, that
they couldn't get in touch because there was no signal and all the same, Velu left us
nine messages, he wanted to know how we are, because it wasn't easy for us here either,
but it touched me extraordinarily much, Gian, these brothers' love and I want to thank
them from the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of my heart, all of you for thinking
about us. I personally prayed with some of you brothers and you know exactly who you
are, we prayed on the phone. What can I say? Everyone tried to participate in a way
that is so supportive. I'm not only talking about Modesto Church where we go, I quickly
sent a text when you were in the snow, exactly at the prayer hour, to Brother Tienu
Hirishko. The Lord's Spirit knew immediately that it was the prayer hour and all of you
brothers, because you were still in the snow, and they prayed. What touched me
extraordinarily much, Gian, brothers from Germany, brother Vili Kleter, Gian, from
time to time, and with Sorayka, from time to time this man called us and you called us
in German and he called us, pastor, has a family, has services, and he said, brother Gian,
I was there and I was interested in prices, I was there and I was interested in prices,
brother Gian was there and I was interested in prices, but you know what it is, we're
not sure if it could go down any further. Maybe we can find somewhere a lower price.
When I discussed with a sister from here, from America, Gian from a state, who was
visiting Romania and she said that Alexandra, a chocolate so small, how much will it cost?
One dollar and a half in Romania. And when we knew our wish, which was the wish in
the last couple of years, to buy a chocolate for a child, to make her a joy. And when
I heard about it, even with my brother, I can't pronounce his name, who came with me.
Seb. Yes, it's like I hear you in my ears, I hear you talking, it was on speaker.
You were holding the connection from here and how much love, Gian, you know, a job
doesn't go to fulfillment. Until there is that love through the spirit of God, the chain
that God made us a whole unit, a job cannot be done. And in the wonder of everything,
in the wonder of all the
I, not only me, through the situations I was with Andrei here and with the little one,
I tell him, and how much it mattered to us, and how we kept the connection with you,
and how the spirit of God knew and brought us through words and gave us a word of
men from the Holy Scripture. It's something that cannot be explained in words.
It was not a brother to help us, we could not do this mission.
We couldn't, we couldn't.
And I want to say, on the second part of the mission, we left Saturday morning, in the
Holy Spirit, the roads were clean, but when we got to the Holy Spirit, we saw that
the snow was getting heavier and heavier and the road seemed to be getting smaller.
Instead of two benches, we were putting up a rope and it was very hard for us to get
to the Redim, to the mythical brother's house. There we were able to talk to him,
I said I want to go with the wicked myth. He said, no, you can't, you can't get there.
A two-meter snow is soft and you can't go with a horse or a sleigh, because
the snow had not yet frozen. It was very soft and horses were going in and out
of the snow until they were covered in snow.
Yes.
And they couldn't go in the snow.
They were getting soft.
And then we found a way to buy bags, right there from the Redim.
We bought raffia bags.
Raffia, yes, I saw.
We put on the mythical brother's house so that all the brothers there,
35 families, could hear the sound.
And I said, give me each name and how many are in the family.
How many family members.
And the size of the family members, I put the food in bags, as you can see here
on the video, even a small interview, in which we describe what we do.
So I put them all in these raffia bags. I wrote the names, the brothers wrote the names
and how many children there are. We put them in raffia bags, we put them in the living room.
With the list and your names.
And at the moment when we finished 35 families, there was some food left,
which we brought to the Suceava district, where we were at least 10-12 families.
But I didn't have the opportunity to go to him.
The brother Georgica went personally and brought them.
I also gave a few phrases from the radio, which we went personally.
We went to two houses.
We went to a house, to a woman, I see you.
As you can see on the video.
And even the brother Georgica did an interview.
Here our sister is very well-maintained, a house of earth, a house that is made of
hand-made rye, it has a single room, the house is left on one side, ready to be turned over.
In the house next to it, it has two goats, three goats, with which it matures and a dog lives
which is tied there.
Here they eat in the same house with the goats and the dog.
Let's pray to God that he will bless us with health and that he will take care of the old people.
I have children, I want to give them to them.
I have a new grandson.
What are you doing?
He is old, sick.
This is the trie from Radauti Prut, on the Prut's shore,
on the border with Ukraine and Moldova.
Which is now very snowy and we can't enter.
Half a meter left on one side, in which is a house of earth made.
She is a widow, she had three goats, a dog, her grandson.
All of them were in two rooms, in one room were the goats,
in which she would milk them to have milk.
And in the room where she sat, where she made the fire and where she slept with her grandson.
I took her from what God gave us to give and I had the opportunity to show you a house of earth,
how it looks.
Of course, this house looks very bad, very bad.
But if you watch the video from September, you can see the houses from there,
which we filmed, some of them are very well maintained, very beautiful.
And the people are very hospitable.
But they are houses of earth.
If they don't have possibilities.
A storm comes, a flood comes, a big snow comes, it can fall.
In September it was like it was in a certain period, in a territory where a few dozen houses,
a few years ago, now it is an island, there is nothing left,
because they were from the ground and the flood came and the water took everything.
And on the first part of the mission we gave 570 packages, approximately,
on the second part we gave 680 packages, which we left to my brother to take him personally to the schools.
We received emails and we received photos.
We received it, as my brothers said, that they went on the snow.
The snow was frozen.
The people from Mito Pruts came with a special van to take the food
and there were children there, we gave them packages for the children.
And what a joy, what a great joy it was.
It was a great joy.
But the greatest joy was when we left there.
Because after we left there, after we visited the houses of these people,
and we have been to a house, still two, I can say, mentally, they had a problem with these people.
They live in a very bright place, there people come and many of them are in charge.
And we had the opportunity to bring them some food and we prayed for them.
We couldn't do more, because we couldn't go anywhere. The snow was very big.
I would have cried a lot, as I promised, to go face to face.
And I knew that, my brothers, even if we had the ticket for another week, the snow wouldn't be enough.
It would take a few weeks.
That two more weeks it would be cold.
We couldn't afford it, Gian.
We had to stay until the new year, so we could get there.
Gian, and to get there, and to get the tickets, thank God that all three of you could come with that flight.
That was a miracle.
Well, what happened?
After we left there, we arrived in a village called Horodiste, if I'm not pronouncing it correctly.
Horodiste, it's close to Paltiniș.
Between Paltiniș, between Horodiste and Dărăbani, it's around 12 kilometers.
And we were in Horodiste and we were waiting for a line of cars.
So we left the radio station, we drove about 6-8 kilometers to Horodiste.
And how long was the day?
It was about two after noon, two and a half after noon.
And we were told not to go any further, because the road was blocked.
Then we waited for a freight train to arrive.
A freight train arrived and started clearing the road, as you can see on the video.
And after a kilometer and a half, the freight train broke down.
A line of cars took us after it, to go after the freight train, and left us on the ground.
Because the freight train broke down, literally broke down, and it left in the end.
And it didn't come back.
It said it would come back in three hours, six, ten, and we had to stay in the car for 24 hours.
With the engine on.
Of course, from the beginning we filled the tanks with water.
That was a miracle.
We had water, we had food.
We didn't have enough water and food, because it was hard to get out of the car.
We needed a viscule, so we couldn't resist the wind.
You can see it on the video.
As you can see on the video.
And what was wonderful was that in front of us was a brother, Victor's brother.
A shepherd brother from the Adventist Church in Holodiste.
He was the only one who finished his work.
It was Saturday after dinner, and he was on his way to Dărăbani, where he lives.
And it was the first car in front of the column.
And after about eight, nine hours, he came to us in the car.
And he said, we couldn't come with you in the car, because the engine would run out.
We have about 10 liters of engine oil and it runs out.
And it was cold, because if the car didn't run, you could freeze it in the car.
Actually, after a few days when we came to the car, the water was frozen in the car.
In the bottles in the car that we left.
And we stayed with him, and we stayed there for 24 hours, until the next day.
The phones were running.
And how did you have to go around the car to get out?
From three in three hours, the shovel that we bought helped us a lot.
Because we cleaned the car in the
car.
And we cleaned the car in the car.